here are some words from the story (I haven't changed the excerpt that's up on the NaNo page today) “All right then. Everybody, when we do the lion routine, I want to start out by having the lion sleeping by one of these girders. Melanie will climb onto the lion’s back and use that as a way to get onto the first girder. Then we’ll have the lion snap at her feet as she hops from girder to girder. Melanie, you’ll look annoyed, not frightened. We’ll give you a plastic baseball bat to bat at the lion with.” “But don’t hit the lion!” said Shayne. “Or if you do hit him, just hit his ass,” said Ed, grinning. “I take it back—hit his head and hit it hard!” said Shayne. “Give it a real whack, cause he won’t feel it otherwise.” “I’m still not letting you be the head,” said Ed. “The lion’s a fraidy cat,” said Mr. M. “He takes one look at the bat and cringes. Think you can do cringing?” He tilted his head and looked at the two boys, whose smiles grew slightly more uncertain. Mr. M leaned toward them. “Well?” The smiles faded and the boys took a step back. “Sure. Yeah, we can do that.”